By Whitney Elfstrom
Have you ever wanted to pie a school official in the face? Well, now’s your chance.
Student Government will hold an event Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Harborwalk where for $1 the USF St. Petersburg community can pie Kaeden Kelso, student body president; Nisuka Williams, SG chief justice; Dwayne Isaacs, director of student life and engagement; Martin Tadlock, regional chancellor; Tiffany Porcelli, SG senate president; and Abigail Bradley, the leadership and student organizations coordinator.
The event will take place at the same time as Bulls in the Burg Day, which is also being held by SG from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Harborwalk. The parallel event is to inform students of the discounts St. Petersburg businesses offer to USF St. Petersburg.
In an email to The Crow’s Nest Alex Williams, director of student government relations, said the idea for the event came after hanging out with a few friends. She said they suggested that SG should engage in “more fun activities with the student body” –– specifically to pie the student body president.
“I’m really excited about it because I’m hoping it brings the student body together,” Williams said. “I felt that doing it while Bulls in the Burg was happening would attract more people to come out to the event and familiarize themselves with the Bulls in the Burg program.”
The pies will consist of whipped cream in a reusable pie pan and the proceeds from the event will go to the SG Scholarship Fund, which is still in development.
Williams said that SG has been working toward creating the academic scholarship for two years and that it will be available for all students to access once it’s created.
“We are still working with the scholarship office to have it be officially created. We need enough money first to actually fund it before it can become official,” she said.
Ysatis Jordan, SG vice president, oversees the fund with help from Kelso, Porcelli, Nisuka Williams, Isaacs, senate president pro tempore Hannah Rose and ranking justice Christine Rowe, according to Williams.
Header photo: Courtesy of Student Government
